Semidiurnal baroclinic wave momentum fluxes at Kaena Ridge, Hawaii

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1249-1269

  Pinkel, Robert ^a   Rainville, Luc ^b   Klymak, Jody ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diapycnal mixing; Energy transport; Tides

Indexed keywords

3-D NUMERICAL SIMULATION; BAROCLINIC; BAROCLINIC WAVES; BAROTROPIC TIDES; BUOYANCY FLUXES; DIAPYCNAL MIXING; ELIASSEN-PALM FLUX; ENERGETIC CONVERSIONS; ENERGY FLUXES; ENERGY TRANSPORT; EULERIAN; INSTRUMENT PLATFORMS; LATERAL GRADIENT; MOMENTUM FLUX; NEAR-SURFACE LAYERS; RESEARCH PLATFORMS; REYNOLDS STRESS; TIDAL STRESS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2D) MODELS; VERTICAL PROFILE;

BUOYANCY; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TIDES;

MOMENTUM;

BAROCLINIC MODE; BAROCLINIC WAVE; BAROTROPIC TIDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EULERIAN ANALYSIS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VERTICAL PROFILE;

KAENA RIDGE; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84868138466     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-11-0124.1     Document Type: Article

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